Typeface Design for the Edie & Eddy Slab Superfamily
An egyptienne with a soft voice
Edie & Eddy Slab is the emphatic, egyptienne-style member of TypeMates' three-part Edie & Eddy superfamily, designed by Lisa Fischbach in 2022. It shares a Hairline base weight with its siblings—the Modern and the Text—while expressing contrast and character through unconventional slab proportions and curves. The family spans 16 styles across 8 weights from Thin to Black, each with a matching Italic, and is released as a variable font. Intended for loud, display contexts such as posters and newspaper covers, it also carries a soft tone through its curves and proportions.
Set in Edie & Eddy Slab
Insights
- The Slab's italics are slightly narrower than the uprights, shifting typographic grayscale for emphasis or focus.
- Five italic-only stylistic sets allow switching between rational cursive forms and more script-like alternates, including a script-style 's' and sans-serif ascenders.
- All three superfamily members share a Hairline base weight, with contrast treatment as the differentiating variable across Modern, Slab, and Text.
- Each font contains more than 850 glyphs, covering Latin and Vietnamese scripts across 200+ languages.
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